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A Man Who
Would Be Chancellor

By

Anjana Shrivastava

Updated Nov. 6, 1997 12:01 a.m. ET

HANOVER, Germany--A year before Germany's national elections, a political star with a plausible claim to bring the opposition to power is rising. It is Gerhard Schroeder, minister president of Lower Saxony and leading light of the Social Democratic Party. Mr. Schroeder, exploiting the confusion regarding Chancellor Helmut Kohl's succession with the Christian Democrats, took the chance to present himself as the best crown prince available. He has introduced himself to centrist voters as the man to carry on the Kohl legacy--the...